Sure it would—the low cost and high capability of 25-year-old Kei trucks is already popular enough that the lobbyists are cracking down on them, seeing them as a threat to new sale! The USA would never do it, but there should be separate standards for smaller vehicles. They will never be as safe as larger vehicles,…

89 is the compromise I’ve made with my wife on what we put in our Volvo 740T. It has a knock sensor, but it’s, like, pre-obdI and it’s unclear (to me, and I actually do chip tuning using an Ostrich emulator, but that’s a different car and a different story) whether it adjusts timing based on knock sensor input. It is…

Speak for yourself... I have a Volvo 740 wagon for a DD (ok it’s not a stick, but only because I couldn’t find one), a Suzuki Swift GT for fun. I don’t really like brown, but I really don’t care what color a car is as long as it does not get me noticed. So brown/beige/white/black/silver. This helps keep me out of…

IDK, Id say it’s pretty solidly DD-able if you enjoy driving a stick, going very slow, and don’t have kids. Your probability of reaching any given destination without drama is very high--given the replaced wiring harness, maybe better than many new cars. 

That’s not an O2 sensor that needs to be replaced, it’s a catalytic converter, and that needs to be replaced because it burns oil, and it does that because miles DO matter, even on Hondas, and these are burning oil and in steep decline by 250k... That’s a long time, and you can just keep putting oil in there and push…

I don’t even give a crap about the bumper—seat is not great, but I bet I could find a better one pretty easy. The O2 light means it burns oil, and they all do, but that’s not going away and is a good sign this one’s a little over the hill. It’s possible to fudge it, keep putting another quart in every other fill up,…

The are only “reasonably good” in the “there are no actually good choices in this size” market segment. That’s me, so I’ve got a set, and they are indeed...OK, especially after some wearing in cuts out the tread squirm. I don’t think they’ll actually damage the car, lol, but I think I agree that I wouldn’t want them…

Is anyone else shocked by the tire choice here? The best I can say for them (and I’ve owned more than one set and bought them again) is that they are surprisingly good in odd sizes where no “real” performance tires are available. I’m aware the original wheels may (not enough of an expert to know which years) not be on…

Yeah, this is one I thought—huh, that seems like a pretty cool car, but lemme check the comments because I don’t know if this model is cursed or something. I saw one for sale by owner with a good description near me for less and I wondered about reputation, because otherwise it seemed interesting. I see how it is, lol.

CP unless you live in Michigan anyway, and maybe not even then, though I realize some people have chosen to live there. I would have voted NP until I saw the word Michigan.

Yes, they righted the car.

A rare case where the price is too high by any reasonable age/mileage/status symbol calculation. I would pay that any day of the week and twice on Sunday for this, though. I admit I haven’t driven a Ferrari, but but you’d be hard to pressed to find a car that drives as well terms of feel, ergonomics and balance as…

Great story. Glad I scrolled down a day  late to read it!

Saw some dudes driving one in the middle of nowhere in Kentucky not long ago. They were doing what I was doing. They were probably like, hey, look at that dude in the Suzuki Swift!

“coolest parent in the pickup line at school” Ummm, where do they sit, exactly? I have to admit this would be the major factor for me...

Came here to say, no matter how good or bad the actual car is, this is a terrible use of the Mustang nameplate. They should do what they did the last time they made this mistake and call it the Probe instead.

Thank goodness the motor’s toast. I just paid a little more than this for a EP3 Civic Si and I was going to feel especially dumb if I could have gotten a reasonable running one of these for less. I do like them, and I should probably have picked up my Civic even cheaper than I did, because it needed some work too (more…

No worries. Who wants a car less than 15 years old?

You may notice that my Kinja handle is... 94GTratracer. I’ve read that article a thousand times and it’s another reason I chose my car. My Swift has shamed many, many, flashier, more expensive cars at the track and autocross.